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Rough Landing Hurts 28, Shuts Airport

December 01, 2000|By From Tribune News Services.

DUBLIN, IRELAND — Twenty-eight people were injured Thursday when the nose wheel of a plane carrying 189 passengers and six crew collapsed as it made a bad landing at the Shannon airport in western Ireland, airport officials said.

Eight of the injured were hospitalized and another 20 suffered "minor cuts and bruises," an airport spokesman said. He could not say whether those in the hospital were badly injured or whether any of them would have to stay in overnight.

The plane, a Futura Boeing 737, had come from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.

"The airport has been closed until further notice and we are awaiting the arrival of air accident investigators from the Department of Transport," the spokesman said.

Airport officials said all flights into Shannon had been diverted to Dublin and Cork.